A Victoria Police canine handler has been cleared of wrongdoing after a suspect was bitten by a police dog in a downtown arrest earlier this year.
The Independent Investigations Office of B.C., which probes all police-involved incidents resulting in serious injury or death, issued itsThe IIO says police responded to a 911 call from a convenience store on Yates Street at 11:39 p.m. reporting that a man armed with a metal baton had robbed the business.
The man, who later admitted to being impaired by an intoxicant, said he couldn’t remember exactly what happened next but believed that a police dog was deployed as he lay handcuffed on the ground, sustaining a bite to his head and on his buttock. The man was provided first aid at the scene and was later transported to hospital, receiving 32 sutures for lacerations caused by the dog bites.
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